[pigsinzen]

They have demonstrated that some people have interest in controlling formatting.

It would be a stretch to say they demonstrated that it’s better to enforce a standard.

Black, itself, changed rules many times within a 1-year period to the point our own CI would fail on existing code that previously passed.

[__turbobrew__]

> CI would fail on existing code that previously passed.

You problem isn’t that black changed formatting rules, your problem is that you didn’t pin CI dependencies. This isn’t a unique problem to black, any other tool used in CI pipelines can cause things to break if you don’t pin them.

[danuker]

Indeed. Something wihout security impact will use pointless resources when you update. Do it rarely (or never if possible).